Change Quotes

"Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Things do not change; we change."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"The eye altering, alters all."
-William Blake

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
-Lao tzu

"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
-Robert Frost

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
-Carol Burnett

"There is nothing permanent except change."
-Heraclitus Of Ephesus

"Change is not only likely, it's inevitable."
-Barbara Sher

"Matters change and morals change; men remain."
-John Galsworthy

"I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman."
-Betty Friedan

"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
-Confucius

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
-Nelson Mandela

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape."
-William S. Burroughs

"It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."
-George F. Burns

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
-Andy Warhol

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-James Arthur Baldwin

"Change is such hard work."
-Billy Crystal

""Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the "boss" which must be changed?""
-Lucy Parsons

"As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behaviour. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works."
-John C. Maxwell

"Change your language and you change your thoughts."
-Karl Albrecht

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."
-Christina Baldwin

"A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine."
-George Moore

"Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou."
-Akhenaton

"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves."
-Lynn Hall